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Late for very good reasons. The US was fed-up with the endless centuries of war-mongering in Europe. There was no UN, no agreements at this time in the world, nothing. It was not the duty, obligation, or even moral obligation for the US to save another country. Nor was it anyone else's. It's not as if the US didn't aid though. Three words: Lend-Lease Act. As towards the Jews, nobody knew explicitly about the genocide until it was too late.
Very good reasons???
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It is impossible to learn about the Holocaust and the Second
World War without the question of how it possibly could have happened
arising, and along with that question comes another. The question of
whether or not the Western World did enough to help the Jews in Europe.
What was their reaction to the campaign of systematic persecution,
robbery and murder the Third Reich inflicted upon the Jewish people?
During the time leading up to the outbreak of World War II, the
Western Press consistently carried numerous reports of the German’s
anti-Jewish policies and their purposeful victimization of the Jews
living in Nazi Germany as well as the annexed territories. The general
public cannot claim that they did not know what was going on, that they
were uninformed. Whether or not they chose to believe it however, is a
completely different story.
I am sure the survivors of the Holocaust will feel better now.
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Lend Lease, you must think this was free and from the heart.
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Lend-Lease, program of military and economic aid given by the United States to nations warring against the Axis powers in World War II. Despite the proclaimed neutrality of the U.S., Congress by the Lend-Lease Act of 1941 empowered President Franklin D. Roosevelt on behalf “of any country whose defense the President deems vital to the defense of the United States, to sell, transfer title to, exchange, lease, lend, or otherwise dispose of, to any such government any defense article” not expressly prohibited. The law originally authorized an appropriation of $1 million. The Office of Lend-Lease Administration, established in October 1941 to administer the act, was incorporated into the Foreign Economic Agency; in 1943 the office was transferred to the Department of State.
In addition to the United Kingdom, China, and the USSR, 35 other governments received lend-lease aid. They included the Netherlands, Belgium, and the Free French. By the Reciprocal Aid Agreement with the United Kingdom, the Free French, Australia, and New Zealand, popularly known as reverse lend-lease, American troops stationed overseas in return received material assistance from the signatory nations. By August 1945, when the war ended, lend-lease appropriations totaled about $48 billion. The U.S. had received more than $6 billion in reverse lend-lease. Arrangements for the repayments by the recipient nations were begun shortly after hostilities ceased. Except for the Soviet debt, of which less than one-third was repaid, repayment was virtually complete by the late 1960s. The U.S., in 1972, accepted an offer by the Soviet Union to pay $722 million in installments through 2001 to settle the indebtedness.
I am sure Ford/Chrysler and GM lost their shirts on this deal :rolleyes:
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The US is withholding their dues for legitmate reasons. The UN does nothing but take, take, and then demand more from the US to solve their problems. If the UN cannot function because one country (the US) does not comply, then maybe we should be spelling UN with an 'S' at the end of the acronym, not an 'N'.
What are the legitimate reasons? (US can't always get it's own way?), and yes to an arrogant person putting the S after U would make sense.
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Yugoslovia is in Europe, where was Europe? Why should a nation half a world away have to clean up a mess that their neighbors would not? Rawanda: Why is the US to blame? If it is the job of the United Nations, not the US to serve the world, why is the US getting the blame?
Yes you score 100 on the geography part of that statement, they are in Europe, and Rwanda is in Africa, a place that US Multinational Corporations just love to exploit. As for ignoring the problems in Europe, I can see why the US would not want to be involved, it does not have anything of value for the US to exploit by way of resources.So the point you and I are both making is the US loves to pick and choose where it steps in, wether it is for Moral reasons or Humanitarian reasons,or self interest reasons, that is where we differ.
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I believe the US did gather allies, and did so for quite some time. The evidence given was plentiful, and Iraq was refusing inspectors. The only reason why a Security Council edict was not made was because Putin was using it as leverage, and Chirach along with Schroeder simply hate the US and were simply kicking dirt to feel important. When France and Germany began saying things like "We will refuse a pass vote no matter what is presented to them", communication ends. At that point, the US gave an ultimatim because it was enforcing Mandates the UN is incapable of.
If you had of waited to ensure the truth about WMD, maybe then the rest of the world would have supported you, do you not think that with the absence of credible (not CIA crap) evidence that the majority of the nations involved felt that the Diplomatic channels would be the best way to get at Saddam Hussein, why was it nescessary to rush in, sh*t if you ask me, they should have turned right at Baghdad and headed straight for Tehran, Iraq was not worth it, the country was in a state of anarchy at best, the people were fractured, it wouldn't have been long until Saddam would have been overthrown from within, they were not the base of operations for the US trained Osama Bin Laden Al Queda, these idiots worked out of Iran and Pakistan, and formely Afghanistan.
Let's put it this way, if the US Gov't had of stayed out of Afghanistan while the Soviet occupation was underway, Osama and his merry band of mujhadeen's would have most likely have been caught by the Russians.
Oh and lets not forget who it was who first armed Saddam Hussein during the Iraq/Iran war which lasted 10yrs can you say USA.Back then Saddam Hussein was a very important US ally was he not.
Whatever the argument and facts, my opinion is the US has a very poor Foreign Policy, instead of using Diplomacy, they use the big stick.Step in where they are not wanted and ignore the places they are needed.
